South Strabane Township Fire Chief Jordan Cramer is frustrated with interstate highway drivers who do not slow down when emergency response vehicles are at work. On New Years Day, emergency responders were called to the Interstate 79 flyover for an accident. According to Cramer, when crews arrived, they found three wrecked cars because of ice that formed during the snow/rain mix and freezing temperatures that occurred that morning. Cramer says the bridge was a sheet of ice and PennDot crews had not salted the roads yet. Cramer says that shortly after his crew set up a blocking vehicle to assist in traffic control, a driver speeding on the highway skidded and struck one of his engines. That is the second time inside of 9 months that a fire truck from South Strabane has been struck during an accident assist. Cramer is calling for additional funding from Harrisburg and from PennDot so that appropriate equipment may be purchased to avoid accidents such as these. Cramer says that despite traffic laws that require drivers to exit the adjacent lane to the incident or if they can’t exit, slow down to 10 miles per hour less than the speed limit, drivers still fly by at speeds above the posted speed limit, regardless of weather conditions. They do not pay attention to emergency response teams. Cramer wants to plead with drivers to put down the phone, obey speed limits and look in front of you for adverse traffic conditions. He says that negative repercussions above law enforcement penalties, is the injury or death to a driver or first responder. Slow down, stay safe.